Wellbeing and Support

Pastoral Support Advisor (PSA)

We have a PSA who provides support to both pupils and parents. Pupils are able to self-refer or staff at the school could suggest this as an option to a pupil if they feel that they would benefit from the service. Parents can contact the PSA for support or advice about their child via email or be telephoning the school. The PSA also contributes to some of the PSHE lessons and delivers Parent Workshops on a variety of subjects (these are listed in the monthly newsletters).

Counselling

Counselling is provided as part of the pastoral care within the school and represents an immediate, on-site response for those children who need the additional expertise. Pupils are able to self-refer or staff at the school could suggest this as an option to a pupil if they feel that they would benefit from the service. Please speak to Miss Khan (hkhan@klbschool.org.uk) if you would like to explore this option.

Winston’s Wish

We have a member of staff in school, who is a trained Winston’s Wish Counsellor (helping young people with bereavement). Referrals happen as mentioned above.

Talk in Confidence (TIC)

We have trained sixth form students in basic counselling skills and the run a drop-in service every lunchtime. They also offer 1:1 support for students. There is more information about this on our website.

Sixth Form Mentoring

We also offer a mentoring service where some of the TIC students are paired up with a younger pupil and they meet on a regular basis to offer a little extra support to that student.

Referral

Members of staff may suggest to a pupil that it may be useful for them to see one of these people. We also operate a self-referral system which is in keeping with supporting adolescent development towards independence. Whilst working in partnership with parents/carers can benefit the counselling relationship, the school policy of commitment to protect counselling confidentiality, sets out definite limits to parental involvement, decisively underpinned by both ethical and legal factors. (The Gillick-competent principle and BACP code of ethics). If you do not wish your child to have access to counselling, please notify Miss Khan in writing.

We also work with a range of other professionals who offer specialist advice depending on a student’s needs. This can be discussed with school so that support can be targeted appropriately.

Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL)

All of our Year 7 pupils will be very familiar with SEAL from their primary school. We continue to focus on embedding these skills in every area of our pupils’ lives at school. Good social and emotional skills help pupils to, for example, make friendships, work in teams, solve problems, deal with conflict, manage strong feelings, to be calmer and optimistic, recover from setbacks, compete fairly, and respect others’ rights and value diversity.

The skills are in five groupings: self-awareness, managing feelings, empathy, motivation and social skills. Most weeks, our assemblies focus on SEAL themes such as: motivation, reflection, student voice, relationships and healthy lifestyles. Tutor group activities often link to these themes and pupils are encouraged to reflect on how their actions affect others within the school and wider community.

Latest News

Letters emailed to parents from the Headteacher regarding the latest information on COVID-19 and KLB school can be accessed below: Y10 Face to Face teaching – Information for parents and students – 4 June Y12 Face to Face teaching – Information for parents and students – 3 June Year 10 and Year 12 update – 28…

Last term the English Department was delighted to announce that Lola Thomson in Year 7 was the county runner-up in the Gloucestershire regional finals – for all of key stage 3! We are now delighted to announce the Gloucestershire Contest County Winners as follows: Key stage 4 – Cordelia Morland Poem 1: ‘Ozymandias’ by Percy…

In early February the English Department held the annual Poetry by Heart competition. Recordings were then sent off to the regional rounds and from there the national entries were selected. We have just had the news that Lola Thomson in Year 7 was the county runner-up in the Gloucestershire regional finals – for all of Key…